Land of the burnt thigh
By: Edith Eudora Kohl ; drawings by Stephen J. Voorhies ; with a new introduction by Glenda Riley.
Series: Borealis
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: St. Paul
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Kohl, Edith Eudora, b. 1884; Frontier and pioneer life -- South Dakota; Farm life -- South Dakota -- History; Pioneers -- South Dakota -- Biography; South Dakota -- Social life and customs; South Dakota -- Biography
Description: Land of the Burnt Thigh, first published in 1938,is one of the best accounts. Edith Eudora Ammons and her sister Ida Mary moved to central South Dakota in 1907 to try homesteading near the "Land of the Burnt Thigh"--The Lower Brule INdian Reservation. There these two young women, both in their twenties and "timid as mice," found a community of homesteaders (including several other single women) who were eager to help them succeed at what looked to be impossible: living in a tiny tarpaper shack on 160 waterless, sunbaked, and snowblasted acres for eight months, until they could "prove up" the claim.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: New York : Fund & Wagnalls, 1938.